Implementing an EU opt-in mechanism for GM crop cultivation

Dennis Eriksson; Eugénia de Andrade; Borut Bohanec; Sevasti Chatzopoulou; Roberto Defez; Nélida Leiva Eriksson; Piet van der Meer; Bernd van der Meulen; Anneli Ritala; László Sági; Joachim Schiemann; Tomasz Twardowski; Tomáš Vaněk

doi:10.15252/embr.201948036

Implementing an EU opt-in mechanism for GM crop cultivation

EMBO Rep. 2019 May;20(5):e48036. doi: 10.15252/embr.201948036. Epub 2019 Apr 23.

Affiliations

¹ Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden.
² INIAV, I.P., Oeiras, Portugal.
³ University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
⁴ Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
⁵ IBBR-CNR, Napoli, Italy.
⁶ Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
⁷ Ghent University; Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.
⁸ European Institute for Food Law, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁹ VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Espoo, Finland.
¹⁰ Centre for Agricultural Research HAS, Martonvásár, Hungary.
¹¹ Julius Kühn-Institut, Quedlinburg, Germany.
¹² Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, PAS, Poznan, Poland.
¹³ Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic.

Abstract

A proposal for implementing an opt‐in mechanism that would allow individual member states of the EU to cultivate genetically modified crops on their territory.

MeSH terms

Agriculture / legislation & jurisprudence*
Europe
Food, Genetically Modified / standards
Plants, Genetically Modified / genetics*